[CLUE-Tech] PERL Q

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Grant Johnson wrote:

> Tim Russell wrote:
> > 
> > What about fork?  That's the way you do it in C.
> > 
> > You call fork() and look at the return value - the parent gets one
> > value, and the child gets another.  Both run at the same time.
> > 
> > I think a "while (true) fork()" would do the trick for you...
> > 
> > Tim
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> Unfortunately, fork() makes it a chile process.  These are very much
> "fire and forget."  I want the first process to be able to stop running,
> and leave everything else going without causing zombies.  I may look at
> fork() followed by exec().

A "chile" process? Kind of spicy? 

Take care,

Zonker
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